TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 75, 24 February 1930, Page 7

TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

COLLEGE ENTRANCE TEST. TARANAKI BOARD’S PROTEST. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 22. The new training college entrance examination, particularly as it affects probationers wishing to enter training colleges at the end of the year, was adversely commented on at a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board. The standard of the new examination is equal to that of the higher leaving certificate, and a number of probationers appointed this year have not reached that standard.

It was considered that if they had to reach that standard in all the subjects required in one year, as well as teach all day, their task would be exceedingly difficult, and that they were being most unfairly treated. Up to the present, said Mr J. A. Valentine, probationers had served one year under the board and then, if recommended by the senior inspector and if they had obtained the necessary status, they had been admitted to the training colleges without further test. Now the department was insisting on the entrance examination. The standard set was higher than that for the present D examination. A resolution was carried to the effect that if those at present holding matriculation only had to reach the higher leaving certificate standard in one ytar they were being harshly dealt with, and that those appointed this year should not be required to do so.